How Is Scribophile's Customer Support?

How is the customer support or service of Scribophile for its members and those thinking about joining or creating an account on this site? Should you join this website or not?

If you send the site admin an email, contact message or tweet, will they respond or will they just ignore you or send you some automated reply that doesn't answer your question?

What is Scribophile?

It's one of many different kinds of online writing critique groups. It's free to join these groups though they offer some premium services. How they work is also pretty similar.

Do you write stories and poems? Should you join Scribophile, an online writing critique group? How is the customer service of this site? Do they reply to messages? | Source

Pros of joining critique groups:

Other people can look at your work and tell you if you missed something (typographical errors, grammatical mistakes, plot holes etc) and give you suggestions and ideas on how you can improve your story.

You can post your work (short story, poem, etc) and fellow members of the site will critique your work and provide constructive criticism. But, in return, you will have to to do the same thing for the works of others.

This means that you cannot just keep posting your work and expect it to be critiqued without also critiquing the works of the other members of that site.

Are you planning to join Scribophile?

Yes. It seems to be a good online critique group

No. I prefer to join sites with good customer service. Besides, there are other online critique groups out there

Cons of critique groups:

It's important to remember that the value of the critique or constructive criticism that you will get depends on the person who is giving it.

Some may not be as experienced when it comes to critiquing while some may not be as detailed when it comes to providing feedback for your work, etc so be sure to take the critiques that you get with a grain of salt.

Emailing Scribophile

I thought that the site seemed pretty interesting so I checked it out. Having read its terms of service, rules, FAQ, etc, I found that I had some questions and wanted some clarification regarding some of their rules so I sent them an email message.

I was surprised to get a response (since Scribophile didn't reply when I used their contact us page or when I sent them a tweet on Twitter) so does that mean that they have good customer support?

Did Scribophile read the email message?

I had to wonder if they read the message that I sent because they replied so quickly and their response didn't really answer any of my questions.

According to Gmail, the email was sent on December 30, 2014 at 1:50 AM while their reply was received on December 30, 2014 3:52 AM.

Clarification on the rules of Scribophile

Part of their message said:

"... not a lawyer so I can't interpret those kinds of documents for you..."

One of my questions was:

"... ask about ... the Getting Started Guide... The screenshot that can be seen here includes a print button. Does this mean that the site users or members are allowed or are able to print the stories posted by others? May I ask why that is the case? Won’t allowing people to print stories that don’t belong to them increase the possibility of these works being plagiarized?..."

So, why would they need to be a lawyer to tell me why their site has a print button?

Think twice before you decide to contact Scribophile because you might not get a response or they might not really answer your questions

I tried to contact Scribophile using their contact us page. I even sent them a tweet on Twitter. But I got no replies. I then sent them an email message. They actually replied but, did they really read the contents of my message? | Source

Asking about the Scribophile Terms of Service

Now, I did mention their TOS since I also wanted some clarification on their terms but I wasn't asking them to explain the legal jargon. I merely wanted to ask about the interpretation of their rules and policies.

These questions had to be directed to Scribophile because it's their site and it's their rules so you can't just ask someone else or try to interpret it yourself because you might end up interpreting a rule differently.

Scribophile customer support versus other sites

For example, I wanted to know about the tagging rules on Daily Two Cents, so I asked the site admins about it. You shouldn't be asking other people or other websites because these rules and terms vary between sites and some have their own interpretation.

For instance, on Persona Paper, I remember asking about their rules for linking our posts to other sites and how many links we were allowed to have.

Customer service is very important, right?

Some sites and companies have better customer support compared to others. Some just have really lousy and bad service, which is unfortunate. Don't you wish that this wasn't the case at all? | Source

HubPages (and other writing sites) has linking rules too and it's different from Persona Paper's. For matters like this, you need to ask the site directly to make sure that you're abiding by their rules.

You might think that it's okay to do this or that, but what if it turns out the site doesn't think so? This is why I wanted to ask Scribophile for clarifications regarding their rules.

Importance of friendly, helpful customer support

Other sites, like the ones I mentioned, readily answered my questions. However, while Scribophile finally replied to my email, their response didn't really answer any of my questions.

Why would either of us need a lawyer just so they can tell me how they interpret their own rules, terms and policies?

So, it seems that their customer service is rather lacking and they didn't seem all that friendly either based on my experience with them.

Do you think that companies should provide good customer service or support?

Yes. They should realize that the people are the ones who led to their success. If we all boycotted them, where will they be now?

Yes. But the reality is that many simply don't care. They're so powerful and rich and everything and they think they can just walk all over people because how can ordinary people stand up to them?

No. Who cares about the customers? It's all about the money and the profits.

None of the above. I will explain my answer in the comments section below

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